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January 9, 2007
Forget that a veteran government meteorologist told the NBC “Nightly News” that global warming has nothing to do with the warm winter in the Northeast. According to that network’s chief science reporter Robert Bazell, he might as well have said…
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January 8, 2007
Chugging along to the show’s close, anchor Dan Harris ended the January 7 “World News Sunday” by introducing correspondent Bill Redeker’s wistful story of how first-class travel on the nation’s railways might “become a thing of the past,”…
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January 5, 2007
With a mild winter in the Northeast and low energy prices, it’s hard for CBS to do the typical story of a freezing woman choosing between “heating or eating.” So the “Evening News” resorted to complaining about the “balmy” weather.
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January 5, 2007
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun,” King Solomon wrote in the book of Ecclesiastes. At the beginning of a new year, that timeless proverb is true when it comes to the media’s…
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January 4, 2007
He’s been the face of hurricane forecasting for decades to TV viewers at home and storm-obsessed broadcast journalists, so it’s not surprising that NBC and CNN honored NOAA’s Max Mayfield with positive stories on his retirement. Yet in doing so…
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January 3, 2007
In about the time it might take a seasoned bartender to whip up a Manhattan, New York-based reporter Sharyn Alfonsi concocted an intoxicating mix of hype and government statistics. Yet the CBS reporter left out some sobering details from her…
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January 2, 2007
Liberal activists and Democratic spokesmen are quick to argue that the minimum wage is too low and unfair. But on the January 2 “American Morning,” that argument came from a CNN business reporter.
While CNN’s Ali Velshi did note that “a…
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January 3, 2007
The second day into “Prescription For Change,” a weeklong series on American health care, ABC News revealed its recent poll found nearly 9 out of 10 Americans are happy with their health care. But rather than finding the statistic an…
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November 7, 2008
To market, to market to buy a fat bailout.
“The government is doing what it can. They’ve learned the lessons of the 30s. And the lesson of the 30s was to put ideology aside and do whatever you can to bail it out,” New York Times Chief…
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November 4, 2008
An Obama victory could boost conservative talk show hosts according to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on election day. The show was more skeptical over the future of left-wing talk.
“Who is going to win in terms of the cable wars?” asked co-host Joe…